top 50% hacker news stories for 2014-11-27

Python idioms I wish I'd learned earlier

http://prooffreaderplus.blogspot.com/2014/11/top-10-python-idioms-i-wished-id.html

12 years ago

418 upvotes – 169 comments

Meditation study shows changes associated with awareness, stress (2011)

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/eight-weeks-to-a-better-brain/

12 years ago

381 upvotes – 173 comments

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of C (2013)

http://damienkatz.net/2013/01/the_unreasonable_effectiveness_of_c.html?

12 years ago

285 upvotes – 312 comments

Hard disk hacking

http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1

12 years ago

275 upvotes – 52 comments

One guy's experience with programming

http://pianocheetah.com/me

12 years ago

252 upvotes – 44 comments

Getting Organized with Org Mode

http://correl.phoenixinquis.net/2014/11/25/getting-organized-with-org-mode.html

12 years ago

186 upvotes – 44 comments

Git v2.2.0 released

http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1411.3/02881.html

12 years ago

185 upvotes – 17 comments

Explorer Shell Merged

https://reactos.org/node/920

12 years ago

166 upvotes – 68 comments

Amazon DNS error

https://www.amazon.com

12 years ago

156 upvotes – 68 comments

Why browse the Web in Emacs? (2008)

http://sachachua.com/blog/2008/08/why-browse-the-web-in-emacs/

12 years ago

152 upvotes – 85 comments

Chernobyl’s Hot Mess, “the Elephant’s Foot,” Is Still Lethal (2013)

http://nautil.us/blog/chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal?utm_source=frontpage&utm_medium=mview&utm_campaign=chernobyls-hot-mess-the-elephants-foot-is-still-lethal

12 years ago

149 upvotes – 123 comments

Is My Startup Burn Rate Normal?

https://medium.com/@DanielleMorrill/is-my-startup-burn-rate-normal-882b2bd20f02

12 years ago

142 upvotes – 102 comments

How Not to Write a Signal Handler

http://741mhz.com/signal-handler/

12 years ago

141 upvotes – 49 comments

Fun with Lisp: Programming the NES (2012)

http://ahefner.livejournal.com/20528.html

12 years ago

135 upvotes – 16 comments

Arthur C. Clarke Predicts the Internet and PC (1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIRZebE8O84

12 years ago

127 upvotes – 36 comments

European Parliament votes in favour of breaking up Google

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30228279

12 years ago

124 upvotes – 166 comments

Mobile video making finally democratized by new video app MV

http://www.mv.com

12 years ago

121 upvotes – 7 comments

Developing and running a Java EE Hello World application

http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Developing_and_running_a_Java_EE_Hello_World_application

12 years ago

119 upvotes – 79 comments

‫‬‏‮txet lanoitcerid-iB

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi-directional_text#Unicode_support

12 years ago

105 upvotes – 14 comments

Inside the Dynomak: A Fusion Technology Cheaper Than Coal

http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/inside-the-dynomak-a-fusion-technology-cheaper-than-coal

12 years ago

104 upvotes – 72 comments

Twitter Is Tracking Users’ Installed Apps for Ad Targeting

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/11/26/twitter-is-tracking-users-installed-apps-for-ad-targeting/

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 55 comments

The Loneliest Genius

http://nautil.us/issue/19/illusions/the-loneliest-genius

12 years ago

103 upvotes – 40 comments

Mobile showers for San Francisco's homeless

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30203229

12 years ago

101 upvotes – 54 comments

American fuzzy lop

http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/

12 years ago

92 upvotes – 25 comments

The Psychology of Color in Marketing and Branding

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/233843

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 4 comments

Google should be broken up, say European MPs

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30228279

12 years ago

90 upvotes – 149 comments

Global Outage of AWS CloudFront CDN on Nov 26 2014

http://www.turbobytes.com/blog/cloudfront-cdn-global-outage/

12 years ago

89 upvotes – 36 comments

Future of Programming Languages

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?FutureOfProgrammingLanguages

12 years ago

85 upvotes – 70 comments

HTTP2 [pdf]

http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/http2-v1.7.pdf

12 years ago

83 upvotes – 19 comments

The Society of Mind Video Lectures

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-868j-the-society-of-mind-fall-2011/video-lectures/

12 years ago

82 upvotes – 10 comments

Molten Aluminum Lakes Offer Power Storage for German Wind Farms

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-27/molten-aluminum-lakes-offer-power-storage-for-german-wind-farms.html

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 36 comments

Containers for Windows

http://blog.spoon.net/introducing-containers-for-windows/

12 years ago

80 upvotes – 42 comments

Global Weirding: Visualizing Climate Change

http://globalweirding.is/here

12 years ago

73 upvotes – 43 comments

Dear VCs: Kill the ‘warm’ introduction

http://dearvcs.svbtle.com/dear-vcs-kill-the-warm-introduction

12 years ago

71 upvotes – 59 comments

Google Glass Is Dead; Long Live Smart Glasses

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/532691/google-glass-is-dead-long-live-smart-glasses/?

12 years ago

67 upvotes – 78 comments

Chartist.js – Simple Responsive Charts

http://www.code-stuff.com/2014/11/chartistjs-simple-responsive-charts.html

12 years ago

61 upvotes – 14 comments

Ruby Threads and the Global Interpreter Lock in C

https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0.preview1/files/thread_pthread.h#annotation=4057266&line=38

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 25 comments

How Clojure deals with objects

https://gist.github.com/runexec/786b92b97b5a3a0ffac7

12 years ago

56 upvotes – 3 comments

LLVM and LLVM Bitcode Introduction (2013) [pdf]

http://pllab.cs.nthu.edu.tw/cs340402/lectures/lectures_2013/LLVM%20Bitcode%20Introduction.pdf

12 years ago

53 upvotes – 1 comments

GoPro Developing Line of Consumer Drones

http://online.wsj.com/articles/gopro-developing-line-of-consumer-drones-1417020883

12 years ago

50 upvotes – 21 comments

How to write a PhD thesis your committee will not approve

http://www.nextscientist.com/write-a-phd-thesis/

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 52 comments

Scheme Workshop 2014

http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/11/27/scheme-workshop-2014

12 years ago

48 upvotes – 0 comments

From Switch Statement Down to Machine Code (2013)

http://741mhz.com/switch/

12 years ago

47 upvotes – 11 comments

Some light reading on lock-free programming

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/11/27/10576382.aspx

12 years ago

42 upvotes – 7 comments

Scientists predict green energy revolution after new graphene discoveries

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-predict-green-energy-revolution-after-incredible-new-graphene-discoveries-9885425.html

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 18 comments

The Original Affluent Society (1972)

http://home.iitk.ac.in/~amman/soc474/Resources/sahlins_original_affluent.html

12 years ago

40 upvotes – 12 comments
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